SARAH SMITH | BURN THE BREEZE Sarah's fascination with
antique objects and the look of old things has led to a series of
drawings and cut wood assemblages which present themselves like hazy
portals to moments of instant nostalgia. Her compositions unfold like
mythical landscapes where sick, dying or dead animals act like the
protagonists in a fragmented, out of scale world of shrinking natural
habitats. Decorative Baroque style scrolls and flourishes appear to be
instigating this out of balance, off-kilter feeling.

With
her wood assemblages, Sarah is committed to using salvaged plywood she
finds in dumpsters and trash piles. Since her work has a look as if it
were "born old," she prefers to use a material that has inherent age.
Warped, stained, broken pieces of found wood are cut into garlands of
leaves, flowers, twigs, and hunted creatures that drape and dangle from
stylized decorative shapes. These wall installations morph interiors
and landscapes, the man-made with the natural and blur the past with
the present.

For
her drawings, Sarah uses composite gold leaf as the element to reflect
our materially excessive times back at us. She takes that concept one
step further by adding a layer of instant decay with a real chemical
process by deliberately corroding the shiny surface of the gold with a
corrosive acid wash. Her intention is to convey that we have entered an
era of loss and the time in which we inhabit has taken its toll on the
natural world which we are in the process of melting, polluting and
turning to dust our most treasured of treasures.

KEVIN E. TAYLOR | POSTURE Using imagery, Kevin attempts
to expose the animal within. Much of that which is assumed to be
chaotic and incomprehensible within the human paradigm can be clarified
through the observation that we, like all organisms are bound first and
foremost by natural law. Over time, civil responsibility has ordered
physical detachment from nature, however a deeper mental architecture
remains instinctively intact. It is this power play with which we
struggle internally. Kevin takes interest in formulating a parody,
amplifying an analysis, and offering visual depiction of this all at
once grotesque, lovely, and hilarious production.